In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.10.9905211155370.2892-100000@server.duh.org>

On Fri, 21 May 1999 12:05:03 -0400 (EDT) Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com> wrote:

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> $Revision: 1.1 $
> 
> This proposal defines the following replacement for the handling of
> extraction of distfiles.  These changes depend on proposal 1, recursive make
> overhaul, to prevent executing the evaluation code several times.
> 
> Each distfile listed in ${DISTFILES} will be extracted based on file
> extension.  bsd.pkg.mk will define the following (which may be expanded into
> a larger list of extensions in a later draft of this proposal).
...

Will be there a way to nail down the compression and extractions command?
Because taking it from the suffix will be a problem in sources from
news archives. I found some nice things there (i.e. recipes - a set of roff
macros to write cooking recipes.)

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> EXTRACT_CMD.shar ?=	@DECOMPRESS@ | ${SH}

Wouldn't it make sense to use the GNU sharutils, they can remove
mailheaders and other garbage befor the archive. I'm working on a few
packages out of "news://*sources" and it's the normal case here to have
some text in front of the shell archive.

Bernd Salbrechter